Racial inequality at the city’s top schools: This gap’s not closing
More than 30,000 students a year take the entry exam for the city’s prestigious “specialized” high schools. About 5,000 earn offers of admission. Why do these students’ ethnic and demographic makeup differ so dramatically from the balance of the city’s students? And why won’t the Department of Education permit evaluation of potential bias on the all-important entry exam that determines who may, and may not, enroll?
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